...the Union can be dissipated among us, I repeat, only by the publications themselves, while any preliminary discussions would be useless.

There was and cannot be any question of my "considering the relations of the Literary Group to the Union as binding for you."

If there cannot be any question of your refusal to participate, then we are very glad that we understood you not quite correctly, and we hasten to send you the address to which all materials from Russia could be sent (the address given to you — Rogner — can be used only from abroad, and please do not give this address to others). Please let us know what you would think of contributing to the journal and to the newspaper, whether you already have something ready, and if not, when you would think of writing it?

1900 in Munich

Written between 6 and 15 September

First published in 1924

in Lenin Miscellany I

Printed from the manuscript